Dirty Pop Culture, Fine Arts, Reviews

Get With This: “The Brian McKnight Show”

3 Comments 31 August 2009

Get Up On It is a new Beautiful Struggler feature that will spotlight new hotness in entertainment, culture, fashion, etc. Get familiar! I don’t know if I have mentioned this to you before, but I am a prophetess. I be propheseeing things before they happen all the time. Recently, I was walking down the street [...]

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Dirty Pop Culture, Pure Comedy

Negro Neverland

16 Comments 27 August 2009

I’ve never been to Atlanta. Really, that’s a mess considering that my college years at Howard would have been prime time to hit a SpellHouse homecoming and how many of my HU and Chicago friends are living there now. Plus, there’s that whole Southern Black mecca aspect of “the A”. For all the horrible, horrible [...]

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Mars/Venus

Just A Baby Boy, You Not The Real McCoy

25 Comments 25 August 2009

Reporting to you live from the South Side of Chicago, I bid you good morning!I am having a GREAT time, despite my friends and family’s inability to indulge my desire to club every night. So, I am jacking a statement from a fella on the Twitter who comments on this blog. I won’t say his [...]

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Life and Times of Sister Toldja

Re-Up: A Chicago Tale

6 Comments 20 August 2009

I’m fittin’ to go take some kids bowling, so I’m away from the desk for a few hours. In honor of my trip HOME tommorrow, an old gem. Twitter me, baby:twitter.com/sistertoldja TTYS-ST Picture this: Chicago, 1997. My crew of girls and I were tighter than ever. We spent all of our free time on the [...]

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Dirty Pop Culture, Race Matters

Everyone Loses

10 Comments 18 August 2009

Forgive me if it seems like I’m giving too much time to this Mike Vick foolishness, but I think there is something really important to be learned here that we have somehow lost in the shuffle. This isn’t really about Vick himself, but moreso about what this situation says about the people who’ve had such [...]

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Pure Comedy

Oh Yeah!

5 Comments 17 August 2009

No scathing social commentary today, folks. Let’s take it easy for a second. Tap into our irreverent side. Sometimes, I feel like the Negro Ally McBeal. There needs to be (and will, just give me time) a show or movie about my crazy life. Critics will create a new genre to describe it: tragicomedramstrel show [...]

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